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Chocolate Zucchini Sheet Cake

7/26/2018

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This sheet cake is brought to you by my incredible sister, Megan Dalton, who has been cooking, eating, and feeding her family clean, whole food for years!  Megan is a wife and mother of two children, and loves creating delicious masterpieces in her kitchen!  She cooks organic, refined sugar-free in all of her recipes and she lives and believes the core concept that eating healthy is an essential part of having a healthy and happy family!  Megan is also proof that it is possible to raise a family and be able to afford, cook, and feed your family whole, clean, and organic foods.  Megan is an inspiration to many of the mom's out there who feel like eating healthy is unreachable in the busy life of motherhood.  Well folks, it's possible, and this delicious sheet cake, comes straight from Megan's kitchen!  
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This recipe combines the health benefits of zucchini, and the sweet taste of chocolate into one fantastic sheet cake that is perfect for parties, or large gatherings!  This cake is the perfect amount of sweetness!  It's super moist and melts in your mouth!  It's made with all organic ingredients and is refined-sugar free!  Chocolate cake that feeds your body with proper nutrients?!  Does that even exist!?  Yes it does!  Let this sheet cake take your taste buds to chocolate heaven!    

Chocolate Zucchini Sheet Cake

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Ingredients:

Cake:

1/2 cup butter (melted)
1/2 cup buttermilk or coconut milk w/lemon 
4 eggs
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup classic Lakanto Monkfruit Sweetener
1/4 cup cocoa powder (heaping)
2-3 bananas
1 3/4 cups flour (preferably whole wheat)
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
2 cups grated zucchini

Frosting:
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup powdered Lakanto
4 Tbs. cocoa powder (heaping)
6 Tbs. coconut milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract
dash of salt
1/2 cup walnuts (optional)

Directions:
  • Preheat oven to 350°
  • Sift sugar, flour, cocoa, salt, and soda together in medium bowl and stir until combined.  Set aside.
  • Grate 2 cups zucchini.  Set aside.
  • Mix eggs, milk, and vanilla in large bowl.
  • Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredient and stir until well combined.
  • Add mashed bananas to butter and then add to the mixture.  Stir until well combined.
  • Add zucchini and mix by hand.  DO NOT over-mix!
  • Bake 20-22 minutes in a sheet pan lined with parchment paper.
  • Make icing while waiting: Combine icing ingredients and whip together in stand mixer.
  • Remove cake from the oven and pour chocolate frosting over cake immediately.
  • Top with nuts and let cool.
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Chewy Molasses Cookies

7/12/2018

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I've always LOVED ginger snaps!  Except for the snapping part... So, I have always resorted to a chewier version of ginger snaps.  These molasses cookies are soft, chewy, and full of flavor!  I've found that getting the right texture in a cookie that is refined-sugar free can be incredibly difficult, and they often come out cakey and dry.  The good news is that I've mastered the perfect cookie texture on these babies, and they are still refined sugar free!  

For these cookies we used Lakanto Monkfruit sweetener:  The vegan, non-GMO, zero calorie, zero after taste, and zero glycemic index sweetener!  Lakanto comes from a fruit and fits all kinds of diets!  Who says you have to stop satisfying your sweet tooth once you go refined sugar free!? 🤣😁😊👍 

Chewy Molasses Cookies

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Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups salted butter (softened to room temperature)
1 cup Lakanto Monkfruit Sweetner
1/3 cup raw honey
1/2 cup molassses
2 eggs
4 cups whole wheat flour
4 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp. ground ginger
1 tsp. ground cloves
1 tsp. Redmond salt

Directions:
  1. Preheat oven to 375° 
  2. In a medium bowl whisk together flour, soda, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and salt.  Set aside.
  3. In a bowl with an electric mixer, beat together butter, Lakanto, and honey on medium speed until well combined and fluffy.
  4. Mix in the eggs, one at a time.
  5. Add the molasses and beat on medium speed until well combined.  Scrape sides of bowl if need be.
  6. Gradually add in the mixture of dry ingredients and mix until well combined.
  7. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30-60 mins or until completely chilled. (If you do not chill your dough, it will be very difficult to roll dough into balls to bake, and your cookies will be much flatter and crunchier after they are baked.)
  8. Roll the dough into small one inch balls.  Fill small bowl with sufficient Lakanto sweetner and roll each ball in the sweetener until it is completely coated.  Place cookies on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or silicone baking sheets one inch apart. 
  9. Bake for 9 minutes or until the cookies begin to slightly crack on top.  (They will crack more when cooling.)
  10. Remove from oven, let cool for a minute or two and then transfer cookies to wire wrack.

​*Makes about 4 dozen cookies.
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